It's likely you've had minestrone from a can that was basically uniform in taste and texture. What a disappointment! Because the most beautiful thing about minestrone is the variety of ingredients, which create a rainbow of flavor and textures that is deeply satisfying to eat. Minestrone is also ...
Corn free
Get well soon carrot soup
Hi there sweetheart, I heard you don't feel so good. Come in. Sit down. Let carrot soup take care of you. I am so pretty to look at, don't you agree? I'm bright and pretty and the color of sunshine. Already you are feeling better, yes? Did you know I'm also chock full of get well ...
Coconut rice pudding
A hug from a loved one. A bowl of rice pudding. A cozy blanket and a cup of tea. Sometimes we have to take comfort wherever we can find it, and today is one of those days. I had a moment over the weekend of realizing all that was happening, all at once. There's the piddly stuff—our dog's ...
Vegan picadillo
Peccadillo and picadillo. One a minor fault, the other a major yum. Guess which one we're talking about today?! Picadillo, the major yum, is generally considered to have originated from Spain and Latin America, but nearly every culture has something like it. Building on the familiar base of ...
Sazon seasoning
Sazon seasoning. Ever heard of it? I hadn't either until I tried to replicate a dish from the hot bar at the co-op where I like to shop. The dish—Cuban piccadillo—is abundantly flavorful but seemed to contain only a few ingredients, so I figured it must be full of seasoning. When I looked online ...
Gingersnap granola
Autumn…that transitional time of year when tanktops are traded for chunky knits, flip-flops fade into boots and booties, and your grande unsweetened ice tea becomes into a pumpkin spice latte. I can’t move on—in this post or in life—without first giving summer its due. I LOVE summer. I love the ...
Taste of autumn yam and kale stew
Peanut butter and jelly, chocolate and peanut butter, yams and kale... these are all matches made in heaven. Now, I know yams and kale aren’t as famous together as the others, but they should be, and I think this stew is going to be the one that catapults the combo to stardom.* Simply stated, ...
Cheer and better soup
Beer and cheddar soup is one of my favorites. I mean, it was before I knew about the dairy industry, with its mastitis, pus, forced pregnancy, orphaning of babies... Ignorance was bliss, I guess. But complicity sucks. And that's why I stopped eating dairy and why I created this Cheer and ...
Curried cauliflower fried rice
I used to think of fried rice as a side dish, or a kind of boring main dish. Many restaurants make it with pretty basic ingredients—rice, corn, peas, carrots—which means it's mostly starch. After four or five bites my mouth is a little bored. Every bite tastes and feels the same. That is, until a ...
Hippie-dippy potatoes and greens
Hippie food is easy to spot. Basically, if you see something with sunflower seeds, tahini, or coconut oil in it, it's probably hippie food. Which is to say it will be super delicious, abundantly nutritious, and maybe a little weird. I am a triple Aquarius with three planets in the 12th house. If ...